Spinning wheels on avatar pictures

[Burpin Chunks]

Maybe Burpin should get rid of the animation avatar. Burpin wouldnt want to discourage new members cause of it. What do yall think. Burpin wont be offended.

[Plum6Pak]

IMO, even though the main page loads well the threads are still real slow, maybe there should be a limit on the size of file that goes in our avatar. Most who visit this site don't know that they can dissable the avatars so it will load better for them. I know if I sit long enough waiting for a page I get impatient and move on, I'm sure it is the same with many who visit this site and there are very many threads with these type of avatars on them now. I've gone the modem route and had to wait for things to load a long time, sometimes I wouldn't stay, I would move on instead of waiting. Maybe someone could do an experiment in the test section and see what size file is acceptable speed to load for a modem, or maybe have something on the main page talking about modem speeds and what to do to speed up the pages.
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[MAXcuda]

I remember some time back Ross wanted high quality pics for the homepage and lifted the attachment maximum size limit.  Its now set to a max attachment size of 1000 giga-bytes.  Maybe that could be brought back down and maybe a maximum avatar size limit could be imposed.   :dontknow:

[miketyler]

an tiny animated GIF should load quickly on anyones machine with decent bandwidth. Could the problem be that they are linking to GIFS or even tiny MPG's that are off site? Thats an option on some PHP based boards that allows the user to link to an avatar thats on the internet somewhere else.  If c-c.com allows it then, the lag the user experiences could very well be the time that it is taking for the file to pull down from the offsite server.